Netflix announces premiere dates, plural, for the final season of ‘Stranger Things’

The official release dates for Season 5 of Netflix’s beloved supernatural series “Stranger Things” have been announced, and yes – there’s more than one.

The official release dates for Season 5 of Netflix’s beloved supernatural series “Stranger Things” have been announced, and yes – there’s more than one. The show’s final season is set to hit the streamer in three chunks, with “Volume 1” premiering on November 26, “Volume 2” on Christmas Day, and the grand finale on New Year’s Eve. The long-awaited debut dates were revealed on Saturday during Netflix’s “Tudum 2025: The Live Event,” where Lady Gaga performed as the platform revealed various other details about content coming in the rest of 2025 and into 2026. (Gaga will appear in Season 2 of the streamer’s hit series “Wednesday.”) For “Stranger Things,” core cast members Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Finn Wolfhard came out onstage at the Netflix event to reminisce about memories of making the show over the near decade since it premiered back in 2016. Their costars Millie Bobby Brown and Gaten Matarazzo each joined over video for the occasion as well. A release date for Season 5 is a welcome announcement, as viewers have been waiting since way back in 2022 – when Season 4 aired and viewers were introduced to the terrifying Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) – for the show to return for its final installment. The delay between seasons was, in part, due to the actors’ and writers’ strikes of 2023 that ran into the show’s production window. “Stranger Things” follows a group of teenagers and their families as they face off against an unnamed evil lurking in what’s known as the “Upside Down,” a mirror dimension existing underneath their small Indiana town. The dark, retro-style series has been one of Netflix’s most-viewed series and has won 12 Primetime Emmys thus far.